[arch-general] Solution for issues with "green" HDDs when gvfs is installed

[Martti Kühne]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> to help those who have "green" HDDs that can't keep asleep when gvfs is
> installed, I replaced the dummy package for gvfs I had installed by the
> real gvfs package and try to solve this issue by another method.
>
> There absolutely in no need to install gvfs on my machine, but since
> there's a "green" EU Regulation, soon or later more people will
> experience that their "green" drives will spin down and up again and
> again.
>
> The assumption is that it's udisks that wakes up sleeping drives, for
> gvfs seemingly configurable by /usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/.
> This assumption might be wrong.
>
> $ systemctl status udisks
> udisks.service - UDisks
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/udisks.service; disabled)
>    Active: inactive (dead)
>
> $ cat /usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/udisks2.monitor
> [RemoteVolumeMonitor]
> Name=GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2
> DBusName=org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor
> IsNative=true
> NativePriority=4
>
> What are "IsNative" and "NativePriority" for?
>
> I still search myself, but any hints are welcome, to disable _what ever_
> wakes up such "green" drives.
>
> Without gvfs those drives keep asleep.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>

It may or may not help you, but I started using linker magic for everything.
did you start reading the gvfsd source? Write me off-list and we can
try sorting this out...

cheers!
mar77i